Here it is, a short summary of the best wise remarks from Google+ Hangout called “The Future of Additive Manufacturing”. Industry experts are talking about their opinions about the course 3D printing is going and major challenges that are important to notice. I bet you’d find this interesting, even if you have no time to watch the whole hour-long meeting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80U5_uEey7k
The old guy in the black shirt with orange cords on his glasses is good in my book. He speaks positive of the reprap project and other things, embracing the little guys. The other people though, made quips all throughout their presentation about how reprap wasn’t and would never be anywhere close to them, and how nothing serious would come out of our efforts, etc. I hate it when people cannot be honest, because they’re really there not to talk about 3D printing, but rather to boast their spot in the area.
Totally agree with you, I was embarrassed about this too, that’s why I wanted to cut-off those moments. The truth is, General Electric is a large company that doesn’t care much about reprap community and hobbyists, people there want to play big. Maybe that’s why they’ve been talking about large-scale production and their own companies’ plans more than enough.
I was actually hoping that this video was exactly the opposite of what it was. That way I could have pointed to it in the side bar and titled it “THIS is why we don’t allow ‘industry’ 3D printer news here”.
What does make one an “Industry Expert”?
Are we even talking about the same industry?
What industry are they protecting?
@ThantiK You know, there are many people here that can push a great talk on the “hobbyist” side, reprap ecosystem and what they think it will look like in the near future. It would be an exciting experience to attend such meeting and I can make next video from it 
@Marcus_Wolschon Having a great deal of experience regarding studing the industry and/or leading a bussiness in it makes one an expert. The industry is additive manufacturing (or 3D printing as we call it), they are presenting big-scale, professional 3D printing market. As we all know innovations come into professional circles before they are adopted by less educated (or rich) hobbyists. At least it used to be so before.
I think the guy on the left is unrealistically optimistic, and the guy on the right is unrealistically pessimistic. The big thing to take away from it is that is that 3D printing, while in it’s infancy, has evolved to the point that GE wants in 
The reason they look down on our community is we are innovating with little money compared to their millions. So to them we are a flea, but we aren’t restricted by corporate greed and blindness. We can move in directions their boards will not allow. Its jealousy.
Didn’t say it was a good thing. I said it shows how far it progressed… chill.
We may be cheap but we are certainly not fast.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
We are fast @Marcus_Wolschon in the $ vs product to market terms that tradition business models its self on. Otherwise why do big business now look to open sources to save money.
@Nigel_Dickinson because we promise free labour.
And free thinking
AND LASERS! Don’t forget lasers! A new set of low-cost printers is about to come into the game, with Makerjuice leading the resin arena and people using LASERS to 3D print. Wonderful times we live in.
Don’t bother. I’m convinced he’s a troll at this point. Nobody can be that arrogant. Anybody who has worked at a company with a defined development process knows how slow change is. And I’m not knocking it, I totally understand the constancy/accountability it provides on multiple levels. I was fortunate enough to work with a company that was smart enough to provide a small extreme programming team to supplement their well define process.
Tool changing? Like in ATC?
Do you have some link?
Can’t find anything on his timeline nor when searching for “3d printing tool changing Luis Rodriguez Alcalde”
@Marcus_Wolschon i guess he means my digital pancakes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3O19n_JqXU , i wouldnt call it ATC even it does change the tools automatically, there is lots of things to improve in order to get close to a proper ATC system.
Proper ATC the only thing that needs to be done is auto sensing of different tools ie length of tool and resetting to object height. Its here and now, its better than early CNC lathes and milling machined.
@Nigel_Dickinson The actual ATC itself is a way bigger problem then the tool-height detection.
That our tools have steppers and sensors and heaters doesn’t make it any easier.
(Can’t watch videos for a few days. 2G internet)